Boy wearing Favre jersey since 2003 sees first Packers game

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The Connecticut boy who hasn’t stopped wearing his Brett Favre jersey since Christmas 2003 has finally attended his first Green Bay Packers game.

The Connecticut boy who hasn’t stopped wearing his Brett Favre jersey since Christmas 2003 has finally attended his first Green Bay Packers game.

David Witthoft, 11, of Ridgefield, Conn., traveled with his family to Lambeau Field to watch the Packers’ 34-13 victory over the Detroit Lions Sunday.

Witthoft admits he will probably soon have to hang up the jersey, which he received for Christmas four years ago.

“I thought I would keep wearing it as long as I could get it over my head,” Witthoft said after the game. “But I’ll probably take it off in the next year, certainly. Then I’ll hang it up in a frame or maybe send it to the (Packers) Hall of Fame.”

David has said he hopes to establish a Guinness Book of Records mark on most consecutive days wearing a Packers jersey. No such record exists, Guinness officials have said.

He recently passed the four-year mark, having worn the jersey for 1,466 consecutive days. He has appeared on television and radio shows and even got a card from Favre.

“David has a lot of ’sticktoitiveness,’ “ his father, Chuck Witthoft, said in 2005 after David passed the 400-day mark. “This wasn’t an idea of ours.”

Chuck Witthoft grew up in Milwaukee and kept his allegiance to the Packers through moves to Minnesota, California and Connecticut.

David’s mother, Carolyn, washes the jersey every two days and has had to do some mending of the garment, which is notably faded. She’s eager for the day when her son finally ends the jersey marathon.

“I’d like to see how he looks in red,” she said.

David purchased a new Packers sweatshirt Saturday while in Green Bay, but his parents say that, unlike the jersey, he will not be wearing the sweatshirt every day.